Rick Scott

Every big story inevitably involves Florida, often in bad ways. That’s true with last week’s court ruling against the Affordable Care Act.

Since Congress passed the law in March 2010, some of the state’s leading Republicans have worked to defeat or undermine it. The chain begins with former Attorney General Bill McCollum, who quickly joined GOP counterparts in a lawsuit challenging the ACA.

Pam Bondi followed McCollum. Like Gov.-Elect Ron DeSantis, Bondi started her campaign on Fox News and rode the exposure to victory eight years ago. She continued the lawsuit, which failed when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld all of the ACA except Medicaid expansion.

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Every big story inevitably involves Florida, often in bad ways. That’s true with last week’s court ruling against the Affordable Care Act.
Since Congress passed the law in March 2010, some of the state’s leading Republicans have worked to defeat or...

Former Broward elections supervisor Brenda Snipes is taking Gov. Rick Scott to federal court, looking to clear her name and professional reputation by filing a lawsuit calling her suspension “malicious” and “unnecessary.”
Snipes wants her job back,...

We can only hope that Pete regards elections with more reverence than he had for the Everglades. Else, Broward voters might fare no better under his auspices than the woeful snail kite.
Pete Antonacci, foisted on Broward County last month by Rick Scott...

In the winter of 1955, Florida Gov. LeRoy Collins had to decide whether to spare the life of Walter Irvin, a black man about to be executed for the alleged rape of a white woman at Groveland, in Lake County, six years before.
It is common knowledge...

Broward’s new supervisor of elections welcomed an audit of his office Tuesday and assured county commissioners he had no intention of making it harder for county residents to vote.
Mayor Mark Bogen invited Elections Supervisor Peter Antonacci, who...

South Florida’s most important public agency is hard at work — on damage control.
I don’t mean the Broward County School District, despite that agency’s deplorable attempt to hide the facts about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre. In this case, I...

Floridians who cast ballots in the Nov. 6 election sent a strong message of support for Amendment 4, which changes the state constitution to allow most former prisoners who complete their sentences to regain their right to vote.
Almost 65 percent of...

Broward County’s new supervisor of elections says he wants to get to the bottom of the office’s ballot-counting problems in the November elections and to make sure they don’t surface again in the future.
Peter Antonacci, who was formally sworn in to...

Gov. Rick Scott’s suspension of Broward Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes stirred up the county’s already stormy political waters Tuesday, with commissioners considering taking him to court and state senators saying the Senate may not agree to her...

Amid the suspension and rescinded resignation of Brenda Snipes, the new Broward Supervisor of Elections Peter Antonacci took the reins as the person in charge Monday.
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Rick Scott will deal with election fiasco
Kudos to Gov. Rick Scott for immediately suspending Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes.
She stands as the true definition of government incompetency. For her now to state that she will fight her...

The Florida Supreme Court will shortly be without an African-American justice for the first time since 1982. That’s if Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis doesn’t ask for more names from the nominating commission that has recommended 11 people to replace three...

Evelyn Bornstein, 96, appeared to be in good spirits before Hurricane Irma struck last year. But four days later, she was dead, and her son says her West Palm Beach nursing home, which lacked a generator to air-condition the facility properly in a power...

Florida Power & Light Co.’s construction of a $888 million Dania Beach plant was unanimously approved Friday by Gov. Rick Scott and his cabinet.
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Republican Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis has picked a Broward County health care executive and political veteran to serve as his chief of staff.
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Chris Smith, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer and veteran of the Florida House and Senate, emerged Tuesday as a candidate for Broward Supervisor of Elections.
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Rick Scott, our outgoing governor, was sweating on national television. He was warning that liberals were going to steal the Nov. 6 election after state law mandated recounts in three close statewide races. His buddy in mental health, President Donald...